If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
AJAHN CHAHLook at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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